I CANNOT believe I've got DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a frontier model, running on my home PC. Insane!
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A user expresses astonishment at running DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731, a frontier model, on a mid-range Windows PC with 24GB VRAM via quantization, highlighting rapid progress in local AI.
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